Description: Notes on the History of Patrick Duffy and Elizabeth Dillon Duffy and Their Descendants
Mary F Duffy, whose middle name I don’t know, but would almost lay money on being Frances, was the fourth child born to Francis W (Frank) Duffy and Margaret J Duffy.
She was born on September 27, 1883, in Pennsylvania. She was probably born in Fairview, in Butler County, where her family lived for a few years while her father worked in the oilfields. The family moved to Allentown, New York by 1886 and then Lockport, New York by 1892. In the 1900 census, she was sixteen, working as a printer and living at home, in a family of eight. (Another child, her brother John Duffy, apparently died in childhood before that year.) From a later census we know that she completed eigh
In 1904, she married Harold Alexander Baker, then a professional violinist . The records I have found so far make the date of their marriage a little unclear. One page of the 1905 New York State census shows her living at home with her parents and sister Elizabeth, at 42 Parkview Street in Buffalo, New York, single, and under her maiden name. The next page of that census lists her parents, her brother Basil, and their son-in-law Harold Baker, but not the daughters. I am assuming an error in the census, bec